ISS Astronaut Captures Incredible View of Hawaii Island
Image Credit: Samantha Cristoforetti/ESA/NASA. European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti captured this amazing view of Hawaii Island some 200 miles overhead from the International Space Station (ISS) late last month. Cristoforetti shared her photo on...
NASA Probe Making First Rendezvous with Dwarf Planet
Image: Artist’s rendering of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft approaching the dwarf planet Ceres. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechNASA’s Dawn spacecraft is slated to become the first probe to rendezvous with a dwarf planet Thursday evening (Mar. 5) in the main asteroid...
NASA Presenting Talk on Asteroid Threats at UH Hilo
On any given day, there are an estimated 25 million objects in the skies and nearly 100 tons of meteorites that make contact with Earth’s surface. While most of them are the size of a grain of sand, objects larger than 1.5 km in diameter could result in catastrophic...